Do not feel sorry.
The UFW under Cesar Chavez lobbied Jerry Brown back in the 70s to prevent mechanization from coming to the fields...especially in Watsonville.
Much of what’s being developed now was already in development in the 70s, funded by the state. That funding was shut down.
The UFW wanted numbers. They did not care about conditions. More workers, more misery, more power for them. Luis Alejo would not be in Sacramento without it.
The toiling Indigeanos you see from hwy 1 are unnecessary. Strawberry harvesting is mechanized in Washington state, for example.
It was stopped in California by the illegal alien dominated unions.
Watsonville was 10 % Mexican in 1950. It is now about 80%. Do you think anyone would have cared if the displaced workers were white Okies?
No. They would tell them tuff Luk, get a job over the hill.